I am rewatching Sex and the City, and oh dear
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Anonymous
| I used to love this show but it does not hold up. I used to think Carrie was the epitome of cool, but she seems clingy and mean! Kristen Davis's acting is painful. Cynthia Nixon is terrific of course, as is Kim Cattrall, but overall the dialogue is stilted and it's just...BIZARRE to watch. Very dated. |
Anonymous
| Nixon is terrific? Lol. Everyone always hated her character. Everything about her is repulsive. |
Anonymous
I especially hated Steve. He came across as moronic. |
Anonymous
| Do a search. This has been discussed and debated so many times. |
Anonymous
| Rewatching here as well. I had forgotten that during season 1 the dialogue seemed to be geared at "lets see how many sexual terms we can use in one episode rather than quality of storyline". I'm surprised I used to enjoy it as much as I did. |
Anonymous
She is far and away the most gifted of the quartet, with awards to prove it. |
Anonymous
he was badddddd. |
Anonymous
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I agree. I enjoyed it back when it was airing as well but now it just feels cringe-y. I remember reading a criticism of it back in the day by someone who said it was "stiletto feminism" -- the easy feminism of rich white women who think being able to buy a pair of $400 shoes means independence. I felt like this was way too harsh and kind of petty at the time. But when I rewatched a couple seasons later, I couldn't stop thinking of that essay. That's exactly what it is. Super shallow and overly focused on consumption to an embarrassing degree.
Agree Cynthia Nixon/Miranda and Kim Catrall/Samantha are the only characters with a little more going on. It would be interesting to see a similar show told more through the perspectives of these characters. They both make digressive choices and wrestle with but ultimately become okay with the consequences. Whereas Carrie and Charlotte have these extremely naive, fairy tale ideas about what it means to be a woman. And that's the narrative that really dominates the show. It's kind of sad. |
Anonymous
I don't remember that narrative at all. I remember people complaining about the way she was styled on the show -- Nixon is a lovely woman but Miranda was always styled to look as awkward and ugly as possible. But I don't remember anyone saying she was repulsive. Most of my friends found her the most tolerable of the quartet -- a lot of lawyers in my circle of friends and people identified a lot more with her than with any of the others except maybe Samantha at times (but her character is a caricature much of the time). |
Anonymous
| Agree, it didn’t age well. |
Anonymous
| Everyone takes this show way too seriously.... |
Anonymous
Or maybe it's just a TV show. I don't get why every show with women in it is viewed as a statement about feminism. |
Anonymous
Yup. It's weird how much rage this old show inspires. No one talks about the influence Seinfeld had on young men because they would sound insane if they did. |
Anonymous
| that show was awful and the women it depicted were tragic. |
Anonymous
| I never liked it then, even less now. I always thought they were a bunch of silly chicks lost in NYC. |